Re: + mm-slab-shorten-kmalloc-cache-names-for-large-sizes.patch added to -mm tree

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 10:03:06AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 10:58:16PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 03:48:49PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > > -	{"kmalloc-1024",         1024},		{"kmalloc-2048",         2048},
> > > -	{"kmalloc-4096",         4096},		{"kmalloc-8192",         8192},
> > > -	{"kmalloc-16384",       16384},		{"kmalloc-32768",       32768},
> > > -	{"kmalloc-65536",       65536},		{"kmalloc-131072",     131072},
> > > -	{"kmalloc-262144",     262144},		{"kmalloc-524288",     524288},
> > > -	{"kmalloc-1048576",   1048576},		{"kmalloc-2097152",   2097152},
> > > -	{"kmalloc-4194304",   4194304},		{"kmalloc-8388608",   8388608},
> > > -	{"kmalloc-16777216", 16777216},		{"kmalloc-33554432", 33554432},
> > > -	{"kmalloc-67108864", 67108864}
> > > +	{"kmalloc-1k",           1024},		{"kmalloc-2k",           2048},
> > > +	{"kmalloc-4k",           4096},		{"kmalloc-8k",           8192},
> > > +	{"kmalloc-16k",         16384},		{"kmalloc-32k",         32768},
> > > +	{"kmalloc-64k",         65536},		{"kmalloc-128k",       131072},
> > > +	{"kmalloc-256k",       262144},		{"kmalloc-512k",       524288},
> > > +	{"kmalloc-1M",        1048576},		{"kmalloc-2M",        2097152},
> > > +	{"kmalloc-4M",        4194304},		{"kmalloc-8M",        8388608},
> > > +	{"kmalloc-16M",      16777216},		{"kmalloc-32M",      33554432},
> > > +	{"kmalloc-64M",      67108864}
> > 
> > I'd rather use KB and MB suffixes or at least capital 'K'.
> 
> I like k and M better.

k and M work for me too.  It we were going to be anal then we should
go with the IEC standard of KiB and MiB, but we're trying to make
/proc/slabinfo a little less ugly, and so we have 16 characters to work
with.  "dma-kmalloc-256KiB" is 18 characters.  The obvious place to lose
two characters is the "iB" which are implicit; we know we're measuring
bytes and the binary nature is assumed in this context of memory bytes
(not storage bytes).  "dma-kmalloc-256k" is better.